II. Holiness in Life............................... 4:17-5:21
Eph 4:17
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,Eph 4:18
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:Eph 4:19
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.Eph 4:20
But ye have not so learned Christ;Eph 4:21
If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:Eph 4:22
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;Eph 4:23
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;Eph 4:24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.Eph 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.Eph 4:26
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:Eph 4:27
Neither give place to the devil.Eph 4:28
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.Eph 4:29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.Eph 4:30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.Eph 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:Eph 4:32
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.Eph 5:1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;Eph 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.Eph 5:3
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;Eph 5:4
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.Eph 5:5
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.Eph 5:6
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.Eph 5:7
Be not ye therefore partakers with them.Eph 5:8
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:Eph 5:9
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)Eph 5:10
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.Eph 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.Eph 5:12
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.Eph 5:13
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.Eph 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.Eph 5:15
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,Eph 5:16
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.Eph 5:17
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.Eph 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;Eph 5:19
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;Eph 5:20
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;Eph 5:21
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.